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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Est. 1863 (from "A Slip Of The Tongue")
I am feeling good tonight
took some pills and I am drinking sparkling wine of all things listening to Toto as midnight passes. a poem can happen with little warning and it is the best that I can do to lug this typewriter around this ancient machine and capture the lines as they come. I am not trying to capture anything immortal here, just trying to keep the paint from dripping off the canvass too much. I think that some artists force this type of thing but I have found that it comes easy for me. some people were born to be heroes, great men and women, athletes and role models, but myself, I am hardly anything worthy of redemption and still I try to be a good man, try to do the right things, try to live a life less decadent. my mother told my wife before my son was born and before we were married that I am not a good person, that my wife shouldn’t live her life with me, to have the child without me, to leave me. I was there when she told my wife this. well, I may not be a good man but I am struggling through it all like everyone else. and I don't bother people with my problems, I don't do that. I have found my comfort in this emptiness as my phone doesn't ring as my wife is out tonight as I sit under this hot ceiling lamp and pick at this wine bottle label. this is my life and I aim to enjoy what little I have of it.
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